Hi Missy, I am sure others have the same question! Fer starters, this isn't a website. There's no graphics. You don't navigate to it with your browser. It's email. You are 'on' a mailing list. The directions on how to use it were sent to you when you subscribed, but hey, no one reads those. Me neither It's best to do so as not only do they tell you how to post a message but also the rules. Lists are very individual. What goes on one will get you tossed off on another. I'll explain a few of our rules in a minute. Anyway, you have managed to post a question to the list. Almost anything sent to the list goes on it. It is then stored forever in the archives. The archives are at our host: www.rootsweb.com . ON this website you can get extensive information on lists and lots of other things. You should check the archives since everyone's post since Noah is there and you might find family connections. THere is a lot of data in those lists such as all the surviving deeds of the McDonalds of Antrim (pilfered from a publication). Can save you time and money . Go to www.rootsweb.com, scroll down to mailing lists, click on 'Interactive Search', type in "Scotch-Irish" and search. If you need help, check the top of your screen, on the right. Click on HELP....get help! They got paid elves, laid off by Santa Claus, ready to help you. (Sorry, a joke..) The posts that do not go to the list are: 1. Emails by people who aren't subscribed. 2. Emails of people subscribed but in the penalty box. Their posts go to the admin (me) and if they are not offensive, off topic, or whatever their original offense was, on it goes to the list. You already know this, but to remind you, to post to the list send an email to scotch-Irish-l@rootsweb.com . The post should be on topic. That means it should be relevant to Ulster Protestants and their diaspora. Scotland is a different country -- we don't 'do' Scottish genealogy. It's dang hard enough to 'do' Irish and the others we get involved iwth. There are at least 20 or more lists at www.rootsweb.com for Scottish genealogy -- so join one of them. People confused about what "Scotch-Irish" means should view our website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle . If you ask a question like what are we, expect to get lots of nasty emails. The same as if you joined an English list and asked what is English or Scottish, or German, etc. Smarter than joining lists and asking questions is reading books,reading articles, and learning. Only the rich can afford to hire someone worth hiring to tutor them in how to do genealogy. People think they can 'get by' by posting questions to these lists. However the people who really know anything are not on these lists. They left the 12,000 th time the same question was asked! Actually they were never on the list. THey are off preparing lectures for genealogy conferences, writing books, and doing genealogy for their clients, so....you must develop the ability to distinquish the know it all know knows nothing from the person with some expertise whose info/advice is worth considering. Otherwise, see me -- I got a great bridge for sale!! You'll love it!!! However the great part about genealogy is unlike brain surgery, you can learn as you go with no bad consquences, excepting for periodical prunings of erroneous branches of your 'tree' or shrub (in my case). So don't worry. Our 'welcome' message (or maybe Rootsweb should rename them 'beware' messages?) requests that you not post on some really dumb topics that cause people who have been doing th is for a while to flee. These topics don't assist our genealogy. I'll forward you a copy privately since if it goes on the list people will begin to chatter about those very topics. Then other members will send them very nasty emails. It'll feel like a bad day in kindergarten or a full moon night in the luny bin. As for why your prior post didn't get to the list, I do't know. You probably didn't send it to the list at all but to some non existent website. Messages sent to the admin address: scotch-irish-l-request@rootsweb.com come to the admin (Me). I send back a message explaining how to post to the list and delete the message since I have only a finite amount of storage in my email box. I delete it from my brain. Ditto..... Don't recall seeing an email from you so either it never even got to the admin (me) or it did and you ignored the email I sent back. People do that sometimes. Then they never do figure out how to post to the list. Scotch Irish genealogy is difficult. Since we must deal with difficult strategies and methodologies, this isn't a beginners list. Rootsweb has a number of list designed for beginners (See www.rootsweb.com) where you can ask any question and get a patient answer. Unfortunately this isn't one of those places. Most courses in Irish genealogy will tell you you can't trace average families before about 1820 in Ireland. You can (sometimes) but it ain't easy. You can certainly begin it as a beginner but we won't mislead you into thinking it's easy. So join a beginners list for support. Best of luck, too! Linda Merle (SI Admin) ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Missy Warren <mawarren@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:41:03 -0800 (PST) >How does one get their question on the website? I sent one in a couple of weeks ago, but haven't seen it posted. Is it that only 3 or so are posted at a time? I'm new at this, so I am very ignorant about how all this works. > > >Missy Warren > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net